John Berger

John Peter Berger was an English art critic,novelist,painter and poet.His novel G .won the 1972 Booker Prize and his essay on art criticism,Ways of Seeing,written as an accompaniment to a BBC series,is often used as a university text.He lived in France for more than half a century.

Date of birth:
5th November, 1926
Date of death:
2nd January, 2017
"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."
― John Berger
Topic(s): Travel
"The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."
― John Berger
Topic(s): Dreams
"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."
― John Berger
Topic(s): Best
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
― John Berger
Topic(s): Art

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